How warm is the Earth? How do we measure it?

Summary:  Laypeople discussing global warming often describe warming trends as if measured like the temperature in my backyard.  This is false on several levels.  Collecting the data on global temperatures is a large task, and maintaining a consistent data series over time is even more difficult.  Despite the extreme importance of this data, today we do neither task …

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